41 thoughts on “WP 3.4 and Jetpack Comments”

Nice! Does it accommodate the new cookie-laws in the UK and the Netherlands? We are not allowed to place third-party cookies without visitor consent… So does it enable FB and twitter to track the visitors of my site?

It was all after reading this post, I was motivated to update my WordPress to the latest version. Because this article gives me a clear cut idea about the new features in WordPress 3.4 Green. However, congrats to the whole team on WordPress Green update.

The Jetpack blog post didn’t make it 100% clear… is this primarily about letting commenters authenticate with federated identities? It’s not a full-on comment outsourcing solution a la IntenseDebate, right? Still uses the local WordPress comments table?

Hello There,
I just want to let you know that I am so grateful and thankful for your amazing creation. Without “WordPress” I would have not been able to start blogging. It made it so easy step for me.
Thank you again

What’s the hook comments uses? 24 hours later and it still hasn’t show up yet.

Not only that, but when I post here, it can auth/sign in to them but doesn’t find/download any of the details from my WordPress, Twitter or Facebook accounts.

And I just noticed it doesn’t remember my details until I enter the email address, although I have just posted a comment, and then it makes up its own mind to insert my http://gravatar.com/socialstrategyuk address, instead of my website.

Hmmm.

I guess I better take a quick trip to the support forum and see if I can get some help over there.

I really do hope most of these things are bugs and not had-coded by intention.

Yesterday, for a whole day, something strange was going on with the Draft page – ‘Save Draft’ had vanished, so had ‘Preview Changes’. When I wanted to save an edited draft I used my (Mac) command/save but when I tried to leave the page I was told all edits would be lost. Grrr! Then, last night, Save Draft and Preview Changes magically reappeared. What were you doing?

Nice week for Automattic. I had recently activated Facebook’s new plugin the day before, and quickly de-activated it to replace it with Jetpack’s comments. Then I reverted back to Facebook’s. I rarely make hastened changes on my blog, but had to because Jetpack’s comments allow guest commenting.

Tim Moore, who announced Jetpack’s comments claimed that he was looking into it. Matt, it would be wonderful if Automattic could look into disabling guest commenting on WordPress, meanwhile allow comments authenticated by login services.

I also use Thesis and cannot get Jetpack comments to work. As I’ve poked around the theme files it seems that Thesis does not use in the comments.php file. If I add “add_action(‘thesis_hook_comment_field’, ‘comment_form’);” to the custom_functions.php file Jetpack does show up though I’ve not tested it, but the Thesis comment field is not removed giving two comment fields.

I would like to add custom CSS to Jetpack Comments (to change the comment textbox background color for examaple). I read it is possible now to change its properties through the WP custom css box. The problem is it simply doesn`t work for me.
If I use Firebug all works fine. Then I add the modifications to the WP Dashboard or even to the theme`s style.css file… and…nothing happens.
Any ideas about what can fix my problem?
Thanks in advance.

A follow-up too: does it play nicely with a CDN? I’m specifically thinking about the page reload after the comment is submitted. Wondering if the heavy caching would tangle thing up or if the new comment is placed via cookies and JS.